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minus-squarefrezik@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up6·7 months agoThere is an actual legal principle of laws simply going out of date, even if they don’t explicitly have a sunset date. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desuetude It’s more common in the UK, where you have 1200 year old laws banning wearing of sandles on Thursdays, but it pops up in other Common Law countries, too, including the US.
There is an actual legal principle of laws simply going out of date, even if they don’t explicitly have a sunset date.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desuetude
It’s more common in the UK, where you have 1200 year old laws banning wearing of sandles on Thursdays, but it pops up in other Common Law countries, too, including the US.